Submitted 1 day ago by FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works to [deleted]
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We figured out scarcity 12,000 years ago.
You can tell because we had time to start writing shit down.
Everything since then has been the people with mental issues hoarding the resources causing problems instead of sharing like normal humans.
In other words, yeah, a job is way more likely to be a useless joke than actually contributing to humanity.
But you're supposed to pretend so they can buy another yacht.
1.) Go find a temp agency, apply to get some job, any job, in a fabrication shop or machine shop.
2.) Show up every day mostly sober, even if you’re sweeping the floor or running a grinder.
3.) Take an interest in thr equipment. Learn about it. Learn how to use calipers and a tape measure.
4.) Eventually they will train you on a machine. Maybe a mill, maybe a lathe, maybe a plasma cutter or brake or laser. Learn how to run it, learn how to run some of the other machines.
5.) Keep learning and never want for a job again.
Good plan.
If nobody will hire you, hire yourself. There are a lot of micro-businesses you can start with little to no money, especially online. Use your imagination, do some research, and give it a try. People are creating new Internet businesses every day, and succeeding.
Yes, consumer, the problem is you. If you just leverage the techno-fuedalism in your favor, you too, can find stability in an unstable system.
I’m going to post this fyi just in case because it’s related.
Do not use job posting websites to find jobs.
They just steal your information plus full of scams.
Here is how you find actual job openings.
Go to individual company websites and navigate to their “careers” or “join our team” page.
Yes it’s more work as you have to make a list of companies that have the kind of work you are looking for and then manually go to each of their websites.
But you are wasting your time using job hosting sites like monster or any of those other ones.
The posts are made by bots and scammers.
And less and less legitimate companies use them for that same reason as well.
If you need ideas for companies , I suggest opening up Google maps and looking around for companies near you and then spread out.
Yup. I have cobcluded that indeed.com is a sham
There might be a kernel of truth to what you’re saying
I have 2 bachelors. Had to do the second because first’s field wasnt hiring by the time i finished. Second now gets automated by AI.
Basically got hit by 2 historic recessions by the time i finished each.
I’d strongly emphasize doing trade/care as of now. You hear the troubles the tech ppl have getting hired? I bet 90% of office jobs get automated with having cheap developers + AI.
Robots which go to ppls homes and repair plumbing or electricity is still 50-200 years away.
I know someone who is in trades, unfortunately it’s not all roses there, either. Only so many electricians are needed. They seem happy to get work when they can get it, but it isn’t always a stable income.
Mechanic work is still alright. Yeah, the field is saturated, but the pool is like 80% drunks/unreliable. If you’re even mildly responsible and know your way around wrenches and cutting and hacking on steel, you’ll go far. That said, you don’t have far to go. Everyone old either died or quit and the last one is your boss.
Once you’re in a shop, getting paid, bonding with the crew and settling in, it’s extremely stable. I’m a forklift mechanic at <redacted>, but any experience with any form of truck or carts carries from job to job. The pay is ‘meh’ but it’s enough to live on, buy drugs and a hobby or two. No home or retirement for us, though unless you own a shop.
so… own a shop?
Those types of mechanics know everybody or have a group of clients already,… and they can afford property. Who can afford property? They can, apparently. You could do mobile mechanic work and/or do roadside assistance for insurance companies, but there’s hoops to that too.
HVAC is booming right now. That’s about the only bright side of the planet getting hotter.
I give it ~15 years but true
Yeah, same as self driving trucks. Been 15 years away for 15 years now.
I mean…when I was 23 I worked shit jobs for a while too until I found an industry I liked. Now I have a good job. But it takes years, they don’t just hand it to you when you graduate undergrad.
It would be nice if the lower end jobs paid better, that’s the bigger issue. Pay people fair wages.
I’m in my mid-30s. When I was 23 I had a master degree and got offered 2 positions that I hadn’t even applied to - both starting positions with good pay in my chosen field. When my boss was 23 he got offered a professor position at a good uni because he happened to share an office with the guy they were hoping to hire, so they hired him as well (?!). In my parents life time, neither applied to a job and got rejected.
Times have changed drastically, even from just 10 years ago.
So it’s possible for both things to be true.
You (and me) had it hard when 23 and harder compared to the boomers (I had to do shitty unpaid internships to get ahead (on top of work not in my industry to service) which was a huge gamble looking back). But 10-15 years have passed and it’s even harder now and I couldn’t recommend that pathway to younger people — cause if they’d do an internship, they won’t get recruited.
Yeah, the Boomers give the typical Boomer advice of “just walk in and give the manager a firm handshake” … because for them, in their time, that actually worked.
Accurate. I didn’t begin building an actual career until mid-30s. Before that it was “unskilled” (term used loosely) labor and service.
What’s wrong with trade-schools?
Nothing in particular but, for me, I spent 8 years learning to do a thing and now I won’t even be given an initial interview. It’s the “what the fuck was the point?” of it all.
For real, trade school did me better than most of my peers, but people definitely have some stigma around it for some reason.
Because colleges pushed the “without a degree, you’ll be flipping burgers and living in your mom’s basement”. When the reality is, trades make bank.
Really depends on the type of degree he got and the major.
I don’t regret my major (music education), even though I’m not using it in my current career. If I had to do it over again though, I think I could have been a good electrician.
It’s really not easy to predict what is going to be needed in the future. I’m trying to tell my kids to be mindful of how the industry is progressing and to keep options open as well as trying to building skills needed such as reading comprehension.
You can still be an electrician!
Thats me dawg 🥀
So he both can’t and can get a job?
A decent paying job
Fucking sick and tired of hearing Americans removed and moan. Yeah, your shitty circumstances are because of your garbage country, do something about it.
Does their shitty instance really censor the word bitch?
What a silly place you come from.
Yeah how dare we protect women, lol.
You seem confrontational
Thanks for noticing!
Bro, I live in the UK and we have the exact same problem
And I’m sick of that too. Rise up
Nobody likes you when your 23…
If there’s no jobs in your field then definitely study a trade instead
If you have to pay to go to grad school that’s the school’s way of saying you don’t belong there.
Man I am in precisely the same spot. Where did we go wrong bro
> still living with parents > wasting days jacking off
Gates9@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
Soon there will be a critical mass of people who have nothing left to lose